Domestic Air Parcel Post Service Near Washington
Domestic air parcel post to begin September 1 handling sealed or unsealed packages over eight ounces up to 70 pounds with a 100 inch length and girth limit. Rates mirror surface parcel post by zones from 55 cents first pound to higher rates, plus a minimum charge for sealed air parcels and an 80 cent per pound flat rate for long hauls. Overseas service began last year under foreign mail authority.
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Washington
Air Parcel Post
Surface Parcel Post
Congress
Post Office Foreign Mail Authority
Ohio Communist Opposes Judge Limiting Moves
Gus Hall, chairman of the Communist Party of Ohio, urged Sen. Taft to oppose Senate confirmation of Federal Judge Samuel Kaufman of New York. Hall alleged Kaufman limited his travel, prejudiced his case, and biased proceedings while others indicted were released without travel bans.
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Cleveland
Gus Hall
Communist Party of
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Senate
Samuel H. Kaufman
New York
Hall
Kaufman
Taft
Harry Truman
Two Engineers Die in Bruceton Lab Explosion
A gas cylinder blast in the U S Bureau of Mines Bruceton laboratories killed two chemical engineers and injured four others. The lab was conducting experiments to produce liquid fuel from coal. Dr Greenwald stated the work was ongoing in the building.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Bruceton
Here
Greenwald
Tragedy Strikes Elyria Father Of Six Killed By Train
Merwin Lanshan aged 34 of Elyria and father of six was found dead on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks after a train struck him as he walked home from a friend's house. Police credited the crew with discovering the mangled body this morning.
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Elyria
Merwin Lanshan
Langhan
Storms prompt mid August start for Dairy Hill School
Gloom grips young residents of Newport New York as winter blizzards disrupt the Herkim er County area. To cover storm closures, Dairy Hill School begins classes in mid August each year.
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Newport
N. Y
Dairy Hill
Herkimer County
Bernadotte Still Holds Hope for Palestine Peace
UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte urged that a six week truce in Palestine be maintained to pave a peaceful settlement. He predicted possible results by mid October and said a report for the UN General Assembly in Paris is planned. Fighting continued in Jerusalem with casualties reported as sniping and clashes persisted.
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Stockholm
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Jérusalem
United Nations
Red Cross
Bernadete
Holy Land
General Assembly of the United Nations
Paris
Israel
UN Security Council
Bernadotte
Geneva
Jerusalem
Holy City
Trans
Well Child For Life Or Only Few Years-College Surgeons To Help Court Decide
In Chicago a 22 month old girl Panela Frances Lamphere with a rare bladder deformity faces major surgery that could extend life. Her estranged parents clash over the operation and seek judge guidance. The judge appointed deans from Illinois Chicago Northwestern and Loyola medical schools to study and report before deciding.
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Chicago
Panela Frances Lamphere
Walter R. O’melley
Aurora
Superior Court
Fred
Irene
O'Malley
Universities of
Illinois
Northwestern
Loyola
Miami University Professor Resigns for Fed Post
Dr. J. Marvin Peterson resigns as Miami University professor of economics to become director of research at the Ninth Federal Reserve District Bank in Minneapolis. The appointment begins October 1. Peterson has taught at Miami since 1926 and lectured at the University of Wisconsin School of Banking during summers.
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Oxford, O
J. Marvin Peterson
Miami University
Ninth Federal Reserve District Bank
Minneapolis
Minn
Peterson
Miami
University of Wisconsin School of Banking
Banking Associations
Jet Fighters Begin Transatlantic Return Flight
Sixteen U S Air Force F 80 jets took off from Fuerstenfeldbruck Germany on the first leg home to Selfridge Field Michigan after arriving in Germany July 25. The Shooting Stars will stop at Odiham England Stornoway Scotland Iceland Greenland Labrador Bangor Maine before returning to Michigan.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Fuerstenfeldbruck
United States
RAF
Odiham
England
Shooting Stars
U. S
Stornaway
Scotland
Iceland
Greenland
Labrador
Bangor
Maine
Selfridge Field
Mich
Immigrants Arrive From Haifa Aboard Pan York
Jewish immigrants arrive in Haifa from Marseilles aboard the Pan York ship intercepted by the British last year in the Mediterranean while carrying Jewish refugees to Palestine.
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Haifa
Marseilles
Mediterranean
Palestine
Berlin Germans Press for Deutsche Mark as Sole Trade Medium
Berlin's three non-Communist parties and the Trade Union Federation urged Western Allied governments to make the Deutsche mark the only currency in western Berlin. They argued Soviet currency would enable Russian exploitation, while praising the Western mark as by far the trusted medium. Meanwhile U S military police reported no promise of release for two Americans detained since August 5 for crossing into the Soviet zone. Reports from Frankfurt claimed the Russians would free them in Berlin. The captives were Lt. Sherman S Turner and Roland Mason Myers.
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Berlin
Moscow
U. S
Frankfurt
Sherman S. Turner
Council Bluffs
Bad Kissingen
Roland Mason Myers
Brooklyn
N. Y
Nuernberg
Ohio Governor Asked To Prevent Fugitive's Return To Chain Gang
Cleveland report on 21 year old Florida prison road gang escapee Fred Fox seeking asylum in Ohio. Attys Morris Morgenstern Bernard B Direnfield urge Gov Herbert to block his return to Florida's chain gang citing his Purple Heart and battles. Fox claims guards mistreat prisoners. FBI says he was captured after fleeing June 20. Judge John E Sweeney to hear case. hearing to be scheduled.
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Ohio
Cleveland
Florida
Thomas J. Herbert
Fred Fox
Live Oak
Fla
Morris Morgenstern
Bernard B. Direnfield
Fox
FBI
St. Augustine
North Carolina
John E. Sweeney
Russian teacher under subpoena in U S spy probe
The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed Oksana Kosenkina as investigators move to New York. She remains under U S custody aided by a State Department asylum pledge while facing uncertain return to Russia. Michael Saramine testified earlier with limited information.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
New York
Resicuers
Robert E. Stripling
House Un-American Activities Committee
United States Congress
Representative Mundt
R-Sd
Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina
Roosevelt Hospital
New York Times
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Mundt
Immigration Bureau
Michael Ivanovitch Samarine
Karl Mundt
Samarine
Ewell Blackwell Wedding Tonight in Covington
Cincinnati Reds ace Ewell Blackwell and Miss Dorothy Davenport 23 of Glendale California obtained a marriage license in Covington Kentucky. Blackwell, age 25 and divorced, said the wedding would occur tonight but would not reveal the location. Davenport’s first marriage.
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Covington
Ewell Blackwell
Cincinnati Reds
Ace Hurler
Dorothy Davenport
Glendale
Cailif
Kenton County
Sam Furste
Blackwell
San Dimas
Calif
Davenport
Tragedy Follows Train Truck Collision Near Massillon
Frederick Haube Jr. 16 died at City Hospital as the second victim of a train truck crash last Thursday northwest of Massillon. His father Frederick Haube Sr. 68, of Cottage Grove near Akron, died a few hours later after a Wheeling and Lake Erie train struck their cattle truck.
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Massillon, O
Frederick Haube, Jr
City Hospital
Here
Frederick Haube, Sr
Cottage Grove
Akron
Lake Erie
Man pays $4 to thank police and fire protection
Adolph Jacobson of Youngstown Ohio believed he owed no income tax this year but chose to show appreciation by making a $4 contribution to good government, a gesture approved by city officials.
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Youngstown, O
Adolph Jacobson
Federal and state probes target red teacher case
Federal and state authorities study evidence in the case of Oksana Kosenkina the Russian teacher who leaped from the Soviet consulate claiming imprisonment. Mayor O'Dwyer says police provide details to prosecutors for action after a conference with FBI State Department and city officials.
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New York
William O'Dwyer
FBI
State Department
United States
John F. X. McGahey
Oksana Stepanova Kosenkina
Babe Ruth Clutches Hope As Messages Pile In
News from New York reports Babe Ruth still critical at Memorial Hospital Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases after pulmonary complications. bulletin notes slight temperature drop and nourishment struggle while visitors, including President Truman and Cardinal Spellman, send prayers and well wishes.
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NEW York
Babe Ruth
Homerun King
Ruth
Memorial Hospital Center For Cancer and Allied Diseases
White House
Truman
Melvin Gordon Lowenstein
Claire
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Lehighton
Junior Legion
Mike Quinlan
Jersey City
N. J
Babe
Navy Vessels Set for Goodwill Cruise to India and Pakistan
Three Navy ships sail toward India and Pakistan for the first goodwill tour since they gained dominion status. Admiral Richard L. Connolly will fly to Karachi to oversee the 12 day mission aboard the heavy cruiser Toledo serving as his flagship.
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Washington
India
Pakistan
Navy
Adm
Richard L. Conolly
U. S
Atlantic
Mediterranean
London
Karachi
Conolly
Toledo
Trenton Area Fatalities Prompt Highway Wreck Reports
Two deaths on area highways this morning near Middletown and Morrow with four injured after vehicles left the road. The 13 year old Phyllis Moore died after a milk truck struck her bicycle at Howe Road and Wayne Madison Road. Seventeen year old Clarence Richards died when his car overturned on Blueshin Hill three miles northeast of Morrow. Companions Melvin Jones and William Kinner were hospitalized with injuries.
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Phyllis Moore
Clarence Moore
Howe Rd
Trenton
Middletown Hospital
Ervin W. Propps
Monroe
Wayne-Madison Rd
Clarence Richards
Lebanon
Blueshin Hill
Morrow
Richards
H. M. Williams
Melvin Jones
William Kinner
Oregonia
Our Lady of Mercy Hospital
Mariemont
Oswald
White admits using gun in Newport industrialist holdup
Raymond White and Irvin Turvey of Middletown Ohio pleaded guilty in Newport police court to armed robbery in a hold up of Avery L. Hack of Alton. White identified as gunman and led investigators to the gun on an Ohio River levee. Bond set at 25000 each. Hack, president of Industrial Pyrometer and Supply, remained in critical condition.
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Newport
Middletown
Oor L. Hack 44
Alton
Raymond White
Avery L. Hack
William J. Wise
Campbell County
Wise
White
Ohio River
Irvin Turvey
Hack
Turvey
Industrial Pyrometer and Supply
Booth’s Hospital
13 Dead and 8 Injured in Roswell B-29 Crash
The Air Force lists 13 killed and eight injured from a B-29 crash near Walker Base six miles south of Roswell New Mexico. Official cause not released and no comment on a Roswell Record report of a takeoff for Labrador. The crew was from the 509th Bombing Wing at Roswell Base.
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Roswell
N. M
Air Force
Walker Base
Labrador
509Th
Bandit Shoots Two Employees During Salem Holdup
A masked bandit shot and wounded Mack Beverage Company employees in Salem Ohio during a holdup last night. Manager Jack Coburn was stabbed in the abdomen and Keith De Jane was shot in the groin as they resisted the robber’s demand for the money box. The suspect fled in a company truck with about 250 dollars in receipts. the truck was later found five miles north of Salem.
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Salem O
Mack Beverage Company
Neil Gaunt
Jack Coburn
Keith de Jane
Salem Hospital
Richard Stiffler
Citizens Radios to Enter Market See FCC Licensing Step
Washington AP reports two way citizen radios patterned after wartime walkie talkies will be produced widely. The FCC says private broadcast stations will be licensed soon and will seek public suggestions on regulations until October 1.
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Washington
Citizens Radios
Federal Communications Commission
Soviet Press Admits Food Shortage in Eastern Germany
The Soviet controlled press acknowledges serious food shortages in the Soviet occupied zone of Germany. It notes a promised 10 809 tons of fat from Moscow to eastern Germany and cites below average 1948 harvests as the cause, while Western reports link shortages to requisitioning and hunger demonstrations.
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Germany
Edwin Shanke
Berlin
Moscow
Socialist Unity Party
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Alfred G. Maybury
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Tempelhof
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